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J. L. HOOD.

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. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6,192I- 1,41 1,434. Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

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UNITED STATES JOHN L. HOOD, OF PAWTUGKET, RHODE ISLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent. t t Apt 2 Application filed September 6, 1921. Serial No. 498,819.

T 0 all whom it may comm:

Be it known that I, JOHNL. I-Ioon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in boxes and the primary object thereof, is to provide a box which may be formed of pieces of lumber that otherwise are not available in the manufacture of boxes.

A further object of the invention is to provide a box in which the ends are materially reinforced and consequently of increased strength, and wherein the sides are secured to such relnforcements by driving the nails or other fastenings through the reinforcements to thus afford firm and sub stantial anchorages for the fastenings.

Briefly, the invention proposes the use of metal strips that are frictionally interlocked with or secured to the end edges of the box ends so as to render such ends practically solid or of one-piece character and to secure the sides to the ends by driving the side fastenings through the metal strips and into the box ends, whereby the metal strips reinforce both the sides and ends of the box and provide a structure of greatly increased strength. 1

In the drawings:

Figure 1, is a perspective view of the box, partly broken away;

Figure 2, is a fragmentary perspective view of one form of metal strip;

Figure 3, is a like view, partly broken away and in section, but illustrating a dif ferent form of metal strip, and

Figure 4, is a section on line 4--4c of Figure 3.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention, the box ends may be formed of scrap material, such as the pieces 1, of varying Widths and are united or connected so as to form a practically one piece struc ture, by the use of channelled metal strips 2, the latter received in grooves 3 formed in the end edges of the wood pieces between the front and rear faces of the wood pieces.

Fastenings t may be used as additional means for securing the metal strips to the wood pieces, though the interlocked may be such that frictional contact will hold the parts assembled. The sides 5 are now secured in place and are secured in engagement with the bottom of the channel strips by fastenings 6, that are driven through the channel bottoms and into the wood pieces 1. The metal strips thus serve to unite the wood pieces of the box ends and to reinforce same as well to reinforce the box sides. and in addition, afford anchorages for the fastenings 6, so that the latter are firmly held in place.

In the form of the invention depicted in Figures 3 and 4, the metal strip has a central channel 7 which is received in a corresponding groove formed inthe end edges of the wood piecesl, and has lateral wings 8 which engage over ELIlClWllJl] the end edges of the wood pieces. In this form of the invention, the fastenings 6, are driven into and through the central channel 7 and as shown in Figure 4 affect expansion of the side walls of the strip that define the channel, thus acting to afford anchorages for the channels that are of increased strength, as

compared with the anchorages of Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.

In all forms of the invention it will be seen that the metal strips are interposed between the box ends and sides,thus preventing contact of the samewith the person or clothing of the box handler or with extraneous objectslikely to displace or disrupt the strips.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byletters patent is 1. In a box, ends and sides, the ends having grooves along their end edges, metal channeled strips interlockingly engaged in the grooves, so as to have their side edges substantially disposed within the confines of the side faces of the ends the sides abutting the strips, and fastenings driven through the sides and through the channels of the strips.

2. In a box, ends and sides, the ends having grooves, metal strips having parts interlockingly engaged in the grooves, the sides abutting the strips, and fastenings driven through the sides and through the strips.

3. In a box, ends, metal strips having parts which are interlocked with the end edges of the ends, sides engaged over the strips and fastenings driven through the sides and through the metal strips.

4:. In a box, ends, channel strips disposed along the edges of the ends and having interlocking engagement with the ends, sides engaged over the strips, and fastenings driven through the sides, "through the channels of the strips and into the ends, the sides of the strips lying approximately within the space fastenings will expand the sides of the channels to afford anchorages therefor.

6. In a box, ends, channel strips disposed along the edges of the ends and having interlocking engagement with the ends, sides engaged over the strips, and fastenings driven through the sides, through the channels of the strips and into the ends, the channels, being of such width so that the fastenings will impinge against the sides of'the channels so as to vspread the channel sides and affordanchorages for the fastenin In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

l/Vitnessesz V 7 Maine A. KINasLEY, J. A. MILLER.

JOHN L.) HOOD. 

